The Rant

Aura of Annoyance

Snippet:Memo to everyone involved even tangentially with Black Friday: YOU ARE DUMB.

The fact of the matter is, the day after Thanksgiving has always been a sign of something fundamentally and systemically wrong with American society. But now, perhaps, there's a tiny chance that systemic flaw will get some actual attention, thanks to the incident at the Valley Stream, NY Wal-Mart in which a store clerk was trampled to death by the crowd rushing in for that morning's all-too-literal "doorbuster" sale.